After election, Republicans must work with Democrats

December 06, 2012

Descending into a name-calling contest is always the easy path. However, the confrontational view expressed by Your View writer John Brinson is exactly what has stopped the country from moving forward. The overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania — and the rest of the country — voted for President Obama. This is a fact and no spinning will change that fact.

Mr. Brinson should champion working together to gain a compromise that helps the country. Somehow his party considers compromise a dirty word — how unfortunate for the country. We need good ideas, not columns aimed at reducing the ability for both parties to work together. A specific group of people is looking to stop government, which is a very different position and much more dangerous position from reducing government.

Working together does not mean everything is split 50-50. The winning party that earned a mandate — sorry, but getting more than 300 electoral votes, picking up Senate and House seats is a mandate — has earned the right to expect the opposition to concede on the points that lost the election for it. Until self-serving and negative voices decide to put the country first, I'm afraid we will not see the progress the majority voters want.